Out On A Limb

NAMES AND FACES

April 15, 1990

SHIRLEY MACLAINE, who turns 56 on April 24, is pretty good-natured about the flak she takes for her spiritual flights of fancy in her books, the latest of which is Out There Tonight. ''Some people see me as nutty,'' she said, ''but I'm still committed to my beliefs - more than ever. I'm quite serious, but I guess people laugh because I'm not a professor. . . . I still really believe that I've lived before and I will live again. I'm not alone. There are billions of people who believe that.''